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Category : Lutheran Church
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The Walther League Messenger
Author: National League for Good Roads
Author: Wrigley's British Columbia Directory
Author: Wixom Family History
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Robert Wixam (d.1686) emigrated in 1630 from England to Massachusetts. He lived in Plymouth by 1643, and moved to Eastham in 1665. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Wixom) and relatives lived in New England, New York, Illinois, Texas, Arizona, California and elsewhere. Some descendants became Mormons, living in Utah, Idaho and elsewhere. Other descendants immigrated to Ontario and elsewhere in Canada.
Annual Report of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company
Author: Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailroadPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Electrical Apparatus and Supplies
Author: Gaertner and CoPublisher:
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Category : Electric apparatus and appliances
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Manual of Statistics
Author: Federated Malay StatesPublisher:
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Category : Licenses
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Paper Trails
Author: Cameron BlevinsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190053690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald's restaurants today. During an era of supposedly limited federal government, the United States operated the most expansive national postal system in the world. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late nineteenth-century United States, Cameron Blevins argues that the US Post wove together two of the era's defining projects: western expansion and the growth of state power. Between the 1860s and the early 1900s, the western United States underwent a truly dramatic reorganization of people, land, capital, and resources. It had taken Anglo-Americans the better part of two hundred years to occupy the eastern half of the continent, yet they occupied the West within a single generation. As millions of settlers moved into the region, they relied on letters and newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, petitions and money orders to stay connected to the wider world. Paper Trails maps the spread of the US Post using a dataset of more than 100,000 post offices, revealing a new picture of the federal government in the West. The western postal network bore little resemblance to the civil service bureaucracies typically associated with government institutions. Instead, the US Post grafted public mail service onto private businesses, contracting with stagecoach companies to carry the mail and paying local merchants to distribute letters from their stores. These arrangements allowed the US Post to rapidly spin out a vast and ephemeral web of postal infrastructure to thousands of distant places. The postal network's sprawling geography and localized operations forces a reconsideration of the American state, its history, and the ways in which it exercised power.
Annual Report, 1893
Author: University of Florida. Agricultural Experiment StationPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Author: USA Patent Office